Newspaper and periodical tie



March 16 1926. 1,576,711

J. D. BISHOW NEWSPAPER AND PERIODICAL TIE Filed March 5, 1925 INVENTOR Joseph D. B/Ishow HIS ATTCRNEY Patented Mar. 16, 192

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. JOSEPH D. BISHOW, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

NENSPAPT'R AND PERIODICAL TIE.

Application filed March 5, 1825. Serial No. 13,113.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn D. Bisnow, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city ot'Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Newspaperand Periodical Tie, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a tie for binding a newspaper or a periodical.

t is now customary for the person who delivers newspapers and magazines first to make compact packages of them, whereby they can easily be handled and thrown from a distance when required, without danger of material injury to the paper or periodical. There are several known ways for producing this effect, prior to my invention; but each has such serious disadvantages as compared with my device, that they need be referred to only for the purpose of pointing out how well and simply my device obviates all of these disadvantages.

One way which has been used to some ex tent, for producing a compact package is by bodily twisting the paper after it is folded; but this wrinkles and tears the paper, and it makes a package of bad appearance, besides spoiling to some extent the legibility of the paper.

Another scheme to accomplish the same result is to pass a rubber band over the rolled up paper or periodical. This however is a time consuming process; and the rubber band is an insecure fastening means, and is likely to break when the paper is thrown.

Still another scheme used to some extent is to bind a wire around the newspaper and tie it by twisting the ends together. This mode, however, makes it difiicult to release the tie, and there is danger of injuring the hands or the paper.

The element of time is of course of very great importance, since each and every one of the papers must be individually handled in this manner. It is in this respect that other forms of package ties fail as practicable devices.

It is thus one of the objects of my invention to provide a tie that is capable of being quickly applied to a paper or periodical, and as quickly removed, when it is desired to use the paper.

Ano he ject at the in ention is to provide a tie that is very inexpensive to manufacture.

Still another object of my invention is to provide a tie that is locked against accidental removal.

Still another object is to provide a tie made of wire which is so arrange-d that there is no danger of the operator cutting or hurting his hand when applying or removing the tie from the newspaper or periodical.

My invention possesses many other advantages, and has other objects which may be made more easily apparent from a consideration of one embodiment of my invention. For-this purpose I have shown a form in the drawings accompanying and forming part of the present specification. I. shall now proceed to describe this form in detail, which illustrates the general principles of my invention; but it is to be understood that this detailed description is not to be taken in a limiting sense, since the scope of my invention is best defined by the appended claims:

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of. a tie, constructed in accordance with my invention, a portion of the tie being broken away to permit the use of a large scale;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the tie shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the tie applied to a newspaper.

As shown most clearly in Figs. 1 and 2, the tie comprises a long wire or rod 11 which is adapted to be wrapped around a paper or periodical 12 (Fig. The size of the wire as well as the material therefor is chosen properly for ready manipulation; for eX- ample, copper wire of about .OsiO inch diameter can be used; but other material could obviously be used. The important point is that the wire 'must be suiiiciently pliant to make it possible to wrap it around the paper or periodical 12, but yet strong enough to resist breaking due to its flexure. 01, course the wire 11 must be long enough to reach completely around the article to be tied, and to leave enough extra length to provide a locking device, which will be described.

Tntegrally formed with the wire 11 is a head portion 13, made by convoluting the wire at one end so as to provide an enlargement. In the present instance,- these con volutionsare shown as in the term of he iad turns, but it is evident that other forms for the convolutions can be chosen. However, a helix has adi 'antages which will become apparent as the description proceeds. In order that no free ends be left exposed at the head 13, and cause injury to the hands or clothes, the end ll. is turned in toward the center of the helical head 13, and then it is passed downwardly in an axial direction.

I shall now describe, in connection with Fig. 3, how the tie can be used on the news paper or periodical, and how it can be re moved. The wire portion 11 is wrapped once (or several times if necessary) around the paper then the end portion 15 is taken by the hand and turned between a )air of adjacent turns of head 13, the turns therein being s racet apart for this purpose. Thus the wire 11 is hooked around one of the turns, by simply twisting end back a half-rerolution. The turned-back end 15 forms a narrow hook through which he turns of head 13 cannot and this turned-bad; portion must be stra ghtened or else the tie must be cut, lI'QfOl'Q the spiral or helix 13 can he disengaged from the wire 11 l he tie is thus locked. The end 15 can if desired be bent to enter the fold 16 of the paper 12, whereby no free one s are exposed. t is thus Very simple to remove the tie, since all that is required is to reverse the operation used in locking it.

1t cannot be too strongly e nphasi'zed that this mode of application is so simple that it takes a very short time to tie in a paper or ieriodical. This feature is of extreme importance, for the persons delivering over a large route are thus enabled to save a good portion of time otherwise uselessly spent in tying the papers. Furthermore, the head 13 being readily formed integrally with the shank portion 11, it is possible to manufacture these ties at little cost in large quantities by the aid of automatic nu chinery.

I am aware that wire ties have been used pass.

for bales and the like; yet all these not adaptable to newspaper or periodical tics. Such newspaper ties must be manually applied and arranged for speed and as a temporary tie only. The turned-back portion 15 does not have to he threaded through anything for the purpose of applying it, as in many forms of bale ties; yet it forms a lock effective until it is staight ned.

I claim:

1.111 a newspaper or periodical tie, a pliant metallic wire ha ing a series of integrally formed convolution-s at one end, said convolutions being free, open and unobstructed, and a continuation for said con vo'lutions of a length sullicient to encompass a folded newspaper or eriodical, said continuation being locked, when in use, with one of the convolutions, by being; turned back on itself to form a locking loop around the wire forn'iing one of the coi'irolutions.

52. In a newspaper or periodical tie, a pliant metallic wire having a series of spaced free helical turns integrally formed "1th, and a continuation for said turns .ngth sutlicient to QHCOJDPZISS a folded or or periodical, said turns being 'icted whereby the end of said continuation can be turned lJaclE on itself between auy of the turns to engage with one of the uuol istructed turns and to form a locking loop around the wire forming said turn.

3.111 a newspaper or li6l'l()(ll"dl tie, a length of pliant metallic wire of a gauge suitable to be easily bent by hand, to encon'ipass a folded newsoapcr or period'cal, and a series of helical turns, integral with the wire at one end thereof, said turns being open, whereby the other end of the wire can be tu 'ne d back upon itself between any of the turns, which thus lock the tie, the free end of said helical portion being turned inwardly and inside the turns.

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